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Second wave of coronavirus pandemic: What RBI can do to help

Unless the Reserve Bank comes forward and helps banks to handhold the MSME borrowers, bad loans will swell in the September quarter

Beyond the bottom line: The journey of newsmaker Deepinder Goyal

In FY21, the founder & CEO of Zomato took a steep pay cut from an annual Rs 3.5 crore to Rs 1.6 crore and waived his salary for 36 months starting April 1, 2021

Amid Covid-19 pandemic, India's insurance sector has seen contrarian growth

The industry has outperformed its global peers, but mostly by exiting the bottom of the pyramid

What's behind Adani group's meteoric rise on the stock exchanges?

The jump in market capitalisation in the past year is not matched by its financial performance

Covid helps reinvent roles for Avanti Learning Centres, discover true path

The pandemic experience has been transformational for Avanti. Avanti Fellows, the not-for-profit, now runs programmes in over 300 government schools

Building for scrap: Does India have the capacity to handle this?

Creating the capacity to scrap vehicles in the volumes required to make a significant dent in vehicular pollution will be a tough ask

Adrift in April

Low employment rates and low labour participation rates leave enough people free to participate in endless political rallies and mammoth religious congregations

Covid-19 boosts digital manufacturing; a business imperative, say firms

The ecosystem for digital manufacturing in In­dia is visible, said the Gateway House re­search study. It isn't as deep as it is in the West or China but is developing breadth and depth

Payments banks' search for right business model

Sandwiched between commercial banks and pure-play payments service providers, payments banks do not enjoy a level playing field

IT industry needs a 'skiller' app to double digital growth in 5 years

Access to digital talent has been identified as a key hurdle to doubling growth in the industry in the next five years. Here's how it's trying to bridge the gap

Economic response to the second wave of coronavirus pandemic

State-specific income support and vaccine vouchers would be the best use of fiscal resources in the near term

Centre's disinvestment plan: A stress test for zombie steel plants

The disinvestment of loss-making plants may likely attract interest from secondary steel makers rather than the big players

Why can't models get Covid-19 predictions right? Should we rely on them?

The models did work to a certain extent. The purpose of the models was not to do long-term forecasting but to inform public opinion and guide policy decisions

The start, not the end, of Unicorn seeding

Conditions are ripe in a broad range of sectors for strong growth and innovation

In India's conflict-ridden zones, 60% trust state police over army

Thirty-nine per cent also believe that the police are corrupt in conflict-affected regions, while 20 per cent shared such a perception of the paramilitary/army, study says

IL&FS case complexities reveal what India's resolution mechanism is lacking

A stretched rescue process reveals critical deficiencies in India Inc's corporate layering and resolution mechanism worsened by the pandemic

Sanjeev Gupta & Greensill questions go way beyond London

The Scottish National Party's dealings with GFG Alliance bear scrutiny

Education reforms based on data can cut govt spending by Rs 1.5 trn: Study

The government can sharply reduce education spends by paying heed to the research findings by two Indian economists

How GIC's ownership problem is keeping insurance biz from growing up

Government shareholding and preferential regulation have skewed the reinsurer's efficiency and, by extension, that of the non-life insurance industry's too

Households wary of discretionary spending

The RBI Current Situation Index has been negative in all surveys conducted in the past four years except the one in March 2019